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Golgi protein 73 (GP73) has been recognized as a biomarker for evaluating liver diseases, although the serum profile of patients with HIV remains unclear. This study was designed to investigate the diagnostic values of serum GP73 in patients with HIV. A total of 92 patients with HIV and 60 healthy participants were selected, and serum samples were collected; 51 of 92 patients were followed up and all indicators were re-tested after 1 year. Patients with HIV had significantly lower GP73 concentration, lower viral load, and higher CD4+ T cell counts after antiretroviral treatment. A significant correlation between the changes of GP73 level and CD4+ T cell count was observed. The CD4+ T cell count was significantly correlated with the glycosylated GP73 level. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) of GP73 to predict negative viral load-negative conversion alone was 0.705. When the cut-off value was set at 146.7 ng/mL, the sensitivity and specificity were 73% and 70% respectively. These results indicate that serum GP73 may have predictive ability for negative viral load-negative conversion.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular , Infecções por HIV , Neoplasias Hepáticas , Humanos , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/diagnóstico , Neoplasias Hepáticas/diagnóstico , Seguimentos , Proteínas de Membrana , Infecções por HIV/diagnóstico , Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológicoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Retinoblastoma (RB) is a common intraocular malignant tumor in infants and young children. However, reports on the morphological descriptions of RB tumor cells from native and foreign scholars are rare. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the myelogram characteristics of RB with extraocular tumor extension and the morphological characteristics of tumor cells in the bone marrow and cerebrospinal fluid. METHODS: For the period from May 2011 to February 2015, we analyzed clinical data on 18 patients in our hospital diagnosed as having metastatic RB in the extraocular and other distant regions associated with clear bone marrow metastasis. The morphology of tumor cells in the bone marrow and cerebrospinal fluid was retrospectively analyzed after staining with Wright-Giemsa stain. A summary of the cytological characteristics was also presented. RESULTS: RB tumor cells in the bone marrow and cerebrospinal fluid not only appeared as aggregated clumps, but were distributed in a scattered manner. The tumor cells may present different characteristic morphologies in different cases, with different tumor cell smears from the same tumor mass even showing different features. According to the degree of tumor metastasis, changes in myelogram were significantly different. CONCLUSION: The tumor cells of RB patients show unique morphological characteristics in the bone marrow and cerebrospinal fluid. Therefore, correct identification of the cells is of great value in the diagnosis, staging, and prognosis of RB.
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Neoplasias da Retina , Retinoblastoma , Medula Óssea , Pré-Escolar , Humanos , Lactente , Prognóstico , Neoplasias da Retina/diagnóstico , Retinoblastoma/diagnóstico , Estudos RetrospectivosRESUMO
Brucella species are the causative agents of brucellosis, a worldwide zoonotic disease that affects a broad range of mammals and causes great economic losses. Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are post-transcriptional regulatory molecules that participate in the stress adaptation and pathogenesis of Brucella. In this study, we characterized the role of a novel sRNA, BSR1141, in the intracellular survival and virulence of Brucella melitensis. The results show that BSR1141 was highly induced during host infections and under in vitro stress situations that simulated the conditions encountered within host phagocytes. In addition, a BSR1141 mutant showed reduced survival both under in vitro stress conditions and in mice, confirming the role of BSR1141 in Brucella intracellular survival. Bioinformatic and experimental approaches revealed that BSR1141 affects the expression of many target genes, including the Brucella virulence component virB2. These data indicate that BSR1141 could influence the expression of virB2, which is important for B. melitensis pathogenesis and intracellular survival. This work provides new insight into the mechanism of adaptation to environmental stress and into the pathogenesis of intracellular pathogens.
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Brucella melitensis/fisiologia , Brucella melitensis/patogenicidade , Pequeno RNA não Traduzido/metabolismo , Fatores de Virulência/genética , Animais , Brucella melitensis/genética , Brucelose/microbiologia , Feminino , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Macrófagos/metabolismo , Macrófagos/microbiologia , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Viabilidade Microbiana , Mutação , RNA Bacteriano/genética , RNA Bacteriano/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Pequeno RNA não Traduzido/genética , Baço/microbiologia , Estresse Fisiológico , Virulência/genéticaRESUMO
Elevated Golgi phosphoprotein 2 (GP73, also known as GOLPH2 or GOLM1) expression in serum and liver, which can be induced by viral infection and cytokine treatments, is intimately connected with liver disease, including acute hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, its pathogenic roles in hepatic diseases have never been clarified in detail. Here, we showed that the upregulated GP73 is indispensable for SREBPs activation and lipogenesis. Notably, GP73 overexpression enhanced SCAP-SREBPs binding and its Golgi trafficking even under cholesterol sufficiency. Consistent with these functional findings, GP73 blockage could alleviate tunicamycin-induced liver steatosis by reducing SREBPs activation. A significant positive correlation of GP73 with genes in lipid metabolism pathway was also identified in liver cancer based on data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset. Our findings revealed previously unrecognized role of GP73 in lipid metabolism.